Reply #7: "comparably-sized company"? Who might that be in retail? [View All]

[Misinformed01]

EDIT: This in Jan Michael responding, missed the logout key again...

I suppose we could call Micky D's "Retail" and they've got about the same number of employees worldwide. Hmm...Not really comparable. The sad fact is that America's largest employer is a crap retail chain (Not GM anymore). Sort of like the Dollar store on steroids. But sadly there are no reasonable comparisons, sorry.

Your next question involves the "freedom" of employees to just happily take whatever job they like. That's simply not a reasonable proposition. I suppose in Libertarian Land that's what they tell you but when one company uses monopolistic, predatory, powers to depress all other similar wages, and drive local businesses out of business, it isn't a Free Market" for either the dead businesses or the low wage workers.

"Wal-Mart's practice of providing products at the lowest possible price effectually increases everyone's wages by allowing them to purchase the most for their money."

You've totally missed the boat here. For one Walmart helps to increase local and state taxes by pushing their low wage workers health issues into the public realm. They only insure some 40% of their employees and their benefits are paltry. Also they drive local businesses to decrease wages too, and local taxes to go up, so how do you figure some magical increase of prosperity? Oh and the fact that just about everything on their shelves is made with coerced, practically slave, labor should make a ethical person sick.

As too your first comment...I thought you were joking, because it's brutally obvious that they are greedy "people", but you weren't.

Later.